tools
If you're trying to solve connectivity problems at a customer site, you can ask a colleague back at your office to use ping and traceroute to see how the network appears to the outside world; or you can use the tools at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/networks/nettools/ to do it yourself. There are tools for looking up Mac addresses and calculating subnet masks too. If you need a more detailed trace, http://w3dt.net/tools/pathping has a pathping tool.
read more
-
Business Continuity
Staying up while you recover: Double-Take Cloud provides easy server protection
Building a backup and disaster recovery service can be time consuming and costly. You need access to a data centre where you can site racks, servers, storage and have sufficient bandwidth to support the service. Alternatively, you could just take advantage of the cloud and leave your cloud supplier to take care of all that.read more -
Security
Danger, USB!
USB has given us fast, easy access to devices and files – but it’s also a security nightmare. How can you lock it down for clients?read more
Get better security with Vista by implementing best practices for using User Account Control - UAC
Operating your PC when you’re logged in with an Administrator account is an inherently insecure thing to do. If you’re a user with highly-elevated privileges across multiple machines or an entire Active Directory domain, running your everyday processing with these privileges can be dangerous to the point of negligence.
Unplugging the PBX to sell a VoIP installation or hosted VoIP
Unless your clients have just returned from a stint on Mars, there is every chance they will already have used VoIP, though they may not call it that. VoIP, or Internet telephony, has been one of the undoubted technology success stories of the last few years. Skype alone claims 200 million users, many of whom work in small and mid-sized businesses.
Danger, USB!
USB has given us fast, easy access to devices and files – but it’s also a security nightmare. How can you lock it down for clients?
Install Virtual Server 2005 R2 with our 16 step tutorial
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 is a good introduction to the world of virtualisation. It’s a free download, and it’ll run on most current hardware — and will support a wide range of legacy and current guest operating systems.
PDF Security: obfuscated code, hackers and other threats
Hackers are finding increasingly inventive ways of exploiting holes in Acrobat.
The same rich content that makes PDF so useful to businesses can also make it a security risk. Embedding links, images, tables and media uses JavaScript and that allows PDF files to be exploited as an attack vector for hackers.
Optimising wireless access for the small business - tips for site surveying and analysis
Most people share the same idea of Office Hell. A plain, bland and featureless big room, with open desks that give no privacy or peace. At best, a maze of little cubicles with walls no higher than five feet eight, no door and no ceilings.
Partner Focus: Aamir Paul, Dell
Aamir Paul, director, Advanced Systems Group SMB, EMEA, at DellSmall businesses depend more than ever on technology, but also face a growing challenge when it comes to managing their IT assets.
Backing up Exchange
Like any other database, Exchange needs a little TLC if you want to recover from any downtime.
Backing up: save the data, save the day
All hardware fails – and backup is seen as boring and unreliable. That combination is the perfect opportunity for you to provide a service that provides business continuity and ongoing revenue. But how do you design the right backup system?
Skype and SIP
Many businesses are now using VOIP SIP connections to deliver IP telephony to user desktops or IP phones. However, until recently the popular low-cost Skype VOIP service hasn’t been compatible with SIP telephony, ?without using third-party tools like those from 3CX.
Featured Partner Programmes
| Microsoft Partner Programme | http://partner.microsoft.com/UK/ |
| Dell PartnerDirect | http://partner.euro.dell.com/M.. |
| HP PartnerONE | http://h41320.www4.hp.com/c.. |
| IBM PartnerWorld | http://www-01.ibm.com/p.. |
Download
Subscribe and get the magazine in the post before it's online
Subscribe and get access to all of the back issues
To read a sample eMagazine - March 2010
Advertise
Request a media packIT EXPERT TOP TIP
TAKE THE POLL
Unified communications
The #1 Bestseller for Only 77p
MOST POPULAR STORIES
- Using SharePoint for document management for the small office
- Document management with Microsoft Search Server
- Upgrading Small Business Server 2003 to Exchange 2007
- Dealing with what’s different in Small Business Server 2008
- How to write an IT service-level agreement
- Setting up Blackberry Enterprise Server BES with Exchange 2007
- How to spoof a MAC address (and why)
- GFI tools for management
- Setup Mobile email with Lotus Domino
- Managing virtual machines with System Center Virtual Machine Manager and PowerShell
RECENT COMMENTS
I just followed the instructions provided in this blog and found it quite helpful. Well, I managed t...
I came across your article and firstly want to thank you for an informative piece of writing. I am i...
To echo the other comments here this is an excellent article and much easier than anything I have se...
Nice tutorial but its better to show each and every thing with screen shots
I recomend Sharepoint doc*ment management software http://www.enovapoint.com/jungledoc/sharepoint-do...